Spinning out to leeward or what is known as a crash gybe or Chinese gybe can often be avoided. Jonty Sherwill outlines the scenario while world champion TP52 sailor Tim Powell offers his five top tips to keep your boat under control

Ports, harbours and waterways have to manage an ever growing volume and mix of recreational activity and heavy commercial activity at times across the same compact waterspace. This creates a series of challenging marine planning requirements that need to be addressed. Whilst land use is often well zoned and tightly regulated, there is frequently limited designation of waterspace outside of specific fairway / anchorage demarcations and protected ecological marine areas.

Seeing how the foiling cat capsized is both handy and worrying for Matthew Sheahan as he prepares to join the crew for Antigua Sailing Week. Having been talk of the town in Saint Barths for her foiling antics at the beginning of the week, Eduardo Perez’s foiling Gunboat G4, ‘Timbalero III’ became the hot topic at the event’s prize giving on Saturday evening, but this time for the wrong reasons.

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Chinese gybes on windy days are a good spectator sport, but with the right prompt response they can be averted. In this article, I explain how they happen and what to do and when to avoid them. Sailing coach Pip Hare gives her expert advice on how to avoid a Chinese gybe.

When boating at sea it’s essential to always be prepared and to plan ahead. Do you have the appropriate boating equipment, and would you know what to do in an emergency? In this guest blog, expert Bill Peach outlines the key areas you should consider to be safe at sea.

British salvage boat breaks world undersea salvage record by recovering bulk of 100-ton treasure from wreck of British wartime steamboat SS City of Cairo at depth of 17,000 feet – some 4,500 feet deeper than the Titanic